Model village

Sitabdiara, the ancestral village of the late anti-Congress icon, does
not qualify for the rural development scheme because it exceeds the
5,000-people limit.

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india today digital

November 6, 2014

ISSUE DATE: November 17, 2014

UPDATED: November 7, 2014 15:25 IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana on October 11, the birth anniversary of late freedom fighter Jayaprakash Narayan. Sitabdiara, the ancestral village of the late anti-Congress icon, does not qualify for the rural development scheme because it exceeds the 5,000-people limit set by the programme. Bhagat Singh, the BJP MP from Ballia, was last heard trying to pull strings in the rural development ministry to get Narayan's village in his constituency declared an Adarsh Gram.